Design Collections featuring Michael Russem

An episode of The Boston Designcast

Boston, and Massachusetts in general, is a design force. Innovation and design is just as much part of our history as tea in the harbor. At AIGA Boston we want to share the cool things that people are doing in the city and how design is flourishing. From the boom of tech companies in the seaport district, to the tradition of print in Cambridge and everything in between The Boston Designcast is here to highlight the design that shapes how we live and where you can find it.

It’s not a secret that technology is moving so fast it’s hard to keep up, especially design education. In the last few decades the way we think about design has dramatically changed so how are students keeping up? In this episode we talk to Heather Shaw, associate professor at Lesley university and graphic designer about design education, where it's been and where it's headed.
More about Heather: lesley.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/heather-shaw
Lesley University's Instagram: www.instagram.com/lesleyuniversity/
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This is a part 2 to our episode Design + Travel. In this episode, we talk to design student and 2018 EMERGE Scholarship winner, Abby Shobajo. She shares her experience traveling to Copenhagen and how that has shaped her ideas of design.
Abby's Website: https://ashobajo.myportfolio.com/
Stir Copenhagen: www.stircopenhagen.com/
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Mark James is the Founder of Envision Design and teaches design at Lesley University. In this episode, he talks about his design process and philosophy and how they influence each other both in practice and in teaching.
Envision: http://www.instagram.com/envision_work
More about Mark: https://lesley.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/mark-james
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Stephanie Grey is a design educator at Framingham State University and Founder of Stir Copenhagen, a multi-sensory design tour of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Stir Copenhagen: http://www.stircopenhagen.com/
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Michael Russem is the curator of the Katherine Small Gallery. The gallery is dedicated to exhibits about graphic design and has a small offering of books about the same. Michael also collects all kinds of designs from Penguin Classics to stamps to Japanese matchbooks.
Katherine Small Gallery: https://ksmallgallery.com/
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